Journal of Earth Science & Climatic Change
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Ice: Sentinel of the Continents

Jeongwook Yun^*

Department of Geology, Katy Independent School District, Texas, USA

Received Date: Mar 19, 2020 / Accepted Date: Apr 04, 2020 / Published Date: Apr 10, 2020

Citation: Yun J (2020) Ice: Sentinel of the Continents. J Earth Sci Clim Change 11: 528

Copyright: © 2020 Yun J. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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In the last few decades, harmful human activities such as burning fossil fuels have caused a rapid rise in toxic
greenhouse gas emissions, trapping Earth’s surface heat which raises global temperatures. The issue of global warming
is prevalent today as temperatures on Earth are increasing at an alarming rate. This increase causes the ice caps in
the Arctic Sea and Antarctica to melt faster which is problematic because cumulative research attests that ice restrains
sea levels from reaching cataclysmic levels. The Arctic Ocean and Antarctica exhibit a balancing effect that controls
the amount of ice melted and produced as each polar region experiences its summer or winter season. Furthermore,
as vaporization levels are extremely low in Polar Regions, these regions utilize ice as a more effective alternative for
water retention. In addition, because ice’s unique qualities, major volume displacement that would detrimentally damage
coastal ports and cities can be evaded.

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